The UK Launch of the OECD-DAC Handbook on SSR

26th July 2007
Church House, Westminster, London

• Background
• Speakers
• Overview
• Video Clip

Richard Manning is Chair of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC). He took up his duties on 16 June 2003. Mr. Manning was former Director General for Policy at the UK Department for International Development (DFID). He worked for DFID and its predecessor agencies from 1965 to 2003, including periods spent serving in West Africa and South East Asia, and as Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank. Before becoming Chair, Mr Manning worked with the DAC over many years, and was from 2001 to early 2003 Chair of the DAC Task Force on Aid Practices which produced a report on "Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery" ahead of the High Level Forum in Rome in February 2003. In March 2005 he was Co-Chair at the Paris High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness.

Moazzam Malik is currently a Deputy Director of DFID and the Head of its Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department (CHASE). Previously he was the Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for International Development. He also headed the DFID Iraq Humanitarian Response Department as well as being the DFID Pakistan Programme Manager. Mr Malik has also worked with a number of international bodies such as The African Development Bank and a number of private sector companies.

Mark Downes is the Administrator of the OECD DAC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation. He was one of the chief architects of the OECD DAC Handbook on SSR and was able to bring to this task previous experience of working on security and justice reforms, as well as policy experience in conflict, peace and security.

Dylan Hendrickson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG) at King’s College London. His background is in International Relations and Development Studies. His current research and policy work focuses on the linkages between security and development, and the Security Sector Reform policy agenda. He works closely with the UK and the OECD-DAC on a number of policy initiatives in this area, and is currently managing a major study on security decision-making processes in conflict-affected societies. He will participate today as a member of the handbook’s critical review panel.

Mark White is DFID's Security Sector Reform Adviser, a post he has held since December 2006. Prior to this posting he spent 2 years as the manager of DFID's Security Sector Reform and Justice Sector Development programmes in Sierra Leone, during which time significant progress was made in concretely linking security sector reform to development through the Poverty Reduction Strategy process, and the transfer of ownership of key policy and financial decisions to the Sierra Leonean security sector institutions. In his position as Conflict Adviser for Central Asia, South Caucasus and Moldova, he has represented DFID in the past on the Russia/CIS Global Conflict Prevention Pool.